Here's prime examples of over-boarding -
This is a topic for an entire forum -
Robotics
Platforms, motors, algorithms and sensors to conform robotics projects
This is a topic for an entire forum -
Education and Teaching
Course curriculum, links to existing courses, discussions about experiences at different locations
This is a topic for an entire forum -
Interactive Art
Art installations, wearable objects, music instruments, projects from the arts field interactive Art
This is a topic for an entire forum -
Product Design
Creating interactive prototypes of future devices
This is a topic for an entire forum -
General Electronics
Resistors, capacitors, breadboards, soldering, etc.
Not only is "general electronics" a topic for an entire forum, there are already resources and forums that exist that are as good or better than this one for general electrons support. The internet is flooded with that kind of help. There is no logical reason for this support forum to help people with general electronics when it's being covered in a hundred other forums and websites. I just looked at the recent general elec. posts - pull-down resistors, transistors, breadboards, schematic symbols, relays, yada, yada, yada - same things day-in and day-out, all too much and off- topic for an Arduino support forum.
^^^ Why are they interested in adding all that burden and traffic to a support forum for the Arduino? It detracts from the core purpose here - helping people understand how the Arduino works - not how to solve any and every possible thing anyone can dream up.
If those boards were removed, and there was a need for that type of support community, I guarantee people will start those forums, and concentrate on those specific topics.
Now will anything change here. Probably not. It's too late, it's like a large corporation - too big to turn and I see no open mindset for improvement or change here.